Window attachment.



PATENTED JAN. 23, '1906.

. G. H. PAULKNER. WINDOW ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 17, 1905.

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CHARLES H. FAULKNER, OF SOA'IERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO CHAMPION METAL WEATHER STRIP AND PARTING BEAD COMPANY, OF BOSTON, .\IASSA(JHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

WINDOW ATTACHMENT.

No. 810,735. j

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 23, 1906.

Application filed July 17, 1905. Serial No. 270,157.

To a l] whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. FAL'LK- NER, of Somerville, in the county of Middle sex and State of Massachusetts, have invent.-

ed certain new and useful Improvements in Vindow Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to sheet-metal attachments for window-casings, such attach IO ments serving as weather-strips to engage the edges of a sash.

The invention has for its object to provide an attachment made from a single piece of sheet metal and comprising not only a weathr5 er-strip to engage the edges of the sash, but also a casing to inclose and protect from the weather the parting-beads of a window-casing to the end that moisture may be excluded from said beads, so that they may be free from liability to shrink and swell and will therefore be free from liability to become loosened and displaced.

The invention consists in the improved at tachment, which I will now proceed to de- 2 5 scribe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a perspective sectional view showing a corner portion of the window-casing provided 0 with an attachment embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of the said attachment removed from the easing. Fig. 3 represents a sectional view of a modification.

5 The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, 12 12 represent the sashguiding portions of one of the vertical sides of a window-casing, and 13 represents the usual intermediate parting strip or "head, which is inserted in a vertical slot formed for its re ception in the casing and its projecting part being located between the beads of the upper and lower sashes.

4 5 My improved attachment comprises a sheetmetal cover or protector, which entirelyincloses the projecting portion of the partingv bead and prevents access of moisture thereto. The said attachment is composed of a single strip of suitable sheet metal adapted to be bent into the form shown in the drawings. The completed attachment includes a base portion 14, adapted to bear upon one of the portions 12 of the casing and provided with orifices 15 for the reception of attaching screws. The metal at one edge of the base port-ion 14 is bent to form a three-sided casing 16, formed to inelose the projecting portion of the parting-bead 13. The outer edge of the portion of the sheet forming the casing 16 has an extension 17, which is adapted to enter the slot formed for the reception of the parting-bead, the said extension being interposed between the inner portion of the parting-bead and the corresponding side'of the bead-receiving slot in the casing. The extension thus engagedwith the parting-bead and casing is securely held and prevented from opening or spreading, no special or separate securing-bezuls being required for the casing. Owing to the fact that the extension 17 projects beyond the plane of the flat base portion which is secured to the face of the windowcasing, the outer side of the partingbead is thoroughly protected from moisture, and since the thrce-sided easing incloses the projecting portion of the parting-bead and then lies along the [latface of the windowv casing there is no possibility of any moisture obtaining access to the inner side of the parting-bead. Therefore the said parting-bead is thmoughly protected by the three-sided casing without the employment of any special additional features of construction.

At the opposite edge of the base 14 from the casing 16 is a folded portion or rib 18, formed by bending a portion of the sheetmetal strip outwardly from the base 14 and then inwardly or backwardly upon the outwardly-bent portion. This rib constitutes a twather-strip adapted to enter a vertical groove formed for its reception in the sash. If desired, a reinforcing or filling piece 20 of sheet metal may be inserted in the rib 18, as shown in Fig. 3.

It will be seen that the described attachment provides in one piece a parting-bead protector and a Weatherstrip, the entire attachment being secured by the operation of attaching the base portion 14 to the casing.

I claim- A window-casing attachment composed of a sheet-metal strip bent to form a central or base port-ion adapted to bear on the face of the casing and having holes for attaching devices, and a three-sided casing at one edge of said base adapted to'inclose the exposed por- In testimony whereof I have ziflixed my tions of a parting-bead, one side of said cassignature in presenceef two witnesses. lng belng extended across the plane of the base to enter the casing with the parting- C1 {ARLES' FAULKX E bead, and a folded portion or rib at the oppo- Witnesses: site side of the base, adapted to enter a groove E. BATCIIELDER,

in the edge ofa sash. ARTHUR H. BROWN. 

